He continued, saying that the fairness is missing in the FBI because it has left Clinton unable to defend herself while Trump gets to make wild accusations based on zero information. He wants to see the FBI give Manafort and Trump the same treatment.

If Reid is right, then James Comey is guilty of something that goes far beyond just using his office to provide a competitive advantage to a candidate. Comey is using the full weight of the FBI to swing the election to a man he knows is in service to a foreign power.

Trump’s use of deception and untruthful affidavits, as well as the hiding or improper destruction of documents, dates back to at least 1973, when the Republican nominee, his father and their real estate company battled the federal government over civil charges that they refused to rent apartments to African-Americans. The Trump strategy was simple: deny, impede and delay, while destroying documents the court had ordered them to hand over

And in not doing so, he’s setting a precedent for secrecy that others will likely follow.

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The writing has been on the wall for months now, but Sunday seemed to make it official: Donald Trump will become the first presidential nominee since Gerald Ford to not release his tax returns during the campaign.

Both Trump’s vice presidential nominee, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, and his campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, essentially confirmed during their respective interviews that no disclosure would be forthcoming.

In my communications with you and other top officials in the national security community, it has
become clear that you possess explosive information about close ties and coordination between Donald
Trump, his top advisors, and the Russian government - a foreign interest openly hostile to the United
States, which Trump praises at every opportunity. The public has a right to know this information. I wrote
to you months ago calling for this information to be released to the public. There is no danger to
American interests from releasing it. And yet, you continue to resist calls to inform the public of this
critical information.

"It's NOT classified! Reid would not have asked Comey to release it if it were classified and he certainly wouldn't be referencing it in an open letter. That would be illegal."

Thank you for this and your analysis, Fahrenthold.. I like it that you're Lawyer